TY - GEN T1 - Elizabeth Packard : a noble fight T2 - Book collections on Project MUSE. A1 - Carlisle, Linda V., 1947- LA - English PP - Urbana PB - University of Illinois Press YR - 2010 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn785781237 AB - Elizabeth Packard's story is one of courage and accomplishment in the face of injustice and heartbreak. In 1860, her husband, a strong-willed Calvinist minister, committed her to an Illinois insane asylum in an effort to protect their six children and his church from what he considered her heretical religious ideas. Upon her release three years later (as her husband sought to return her to an asylum), Packard obtained a jury trial and was declared sane. Before the trial ended, however, her husband sold their home and left for Massachusetts with their young children and her personal property. His actions were perfectly legal under Illinois and Massachusetts law; Packard had no legal recourse by which to recover her children and property. This experience in the legal system, along with her experience as an asylum patient, launched Packard into a career as an advocate for the civil rights of married women and the mentally ill. She wrote numerous books and lobbied legislatures literally from coast to coast advocating more stringent commitment laws, protections for the rights of asylum patients, and laws to give married women equal rights in matters of child custody, property, and earnings. Despite strong opposition from the psychiatric community, Packard's laws were passed in state after state, with lasting impact on commitment and care of the mentally ill in the United States. Packard's life demonstrates how dissonant streams of American social and intellectual history led to conflict between the freethinking Packard, her Calvinist husband, her asylum doctor, and America's fledgling psychiatric profession. It is this conflict--along with her personal battle to transcend the stigma of insanity and regain custody of her children--that makes Elizabeth Packard's story both forceful and compelling. CN - RC464.P33 SN - 9780252090073 SN - 0252090071 SN - 1283609037 SN - 9781283609036 SN - 9786613921482 SN - 6613921483 SN - 9780252035722 SN - 0252035720 KW - Packard, E. P. W. : (Elizabeth Parsons Ware), : 1816-1897. KW - Packard, E. P. W : (Elizabeth Parsons Ware), : 1816-1897 KW - Packard, E. P. W. : (Elizabeth Parsons Ware), : 1816-1897 KW - Psychiatric hospital patients : Illinois : Biography. KW - Social reformers : Illinois : Biography. KW - Women social reformers : Illinois : Biography. KW - Mentally ill : Commitment and detention : United States : Case studies. KW - Mentally ill : Civil rights : United States : Case studies. KW - Husband and wife : United States : Case studies. KW - Married women : Civil rights : United States : Case studies. KW - Women's rights : United States : Case studies. KW - Patients. KW - Mentally ill women. KW - Persons with Psychiatric Disorders. KW - Patients KW - Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders : legislation & jurisprudence. KW - History, 19th Century KW - Persons with Psychiatric Disorders : legislation & jurisprudence. KW - Women's Rights : history KW - Illinois KW - Patients des hôpitaux psychiatriques : Illinois : Biographies. KW - Réformateurs sociaux : Illinois : Biographies. KW - Réformatrices sociales : Illinois : Biographies. KW - Internement (Psychiatrie) : États-Unis : Études de cas. KW - Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale : Droits : États-Unis : Études de cas. KW - Femmes mariées : Droits : États-Unis : Études de cas. KW - Médecine : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - Femmes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale. KW - patients. KW - people with psychiatric illnesses. KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Social Scientists & Psychologists. KW - MEDICAL : Mental Health. KW - PSYCHOLOGY : Mental Health. KW - PSYCHOLOGY : Mental Illness. KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Women. KW - Husband and wife KW - Married women : Civil rights KW - Mentally ill : Civil rights KW - Mentally ill : Commitment and detention KW - Psychiatric hospital patients KW - Social reformers KW - Women social reformers KW - Women's rights KW - United States KW - Biography KW - collective biographies. KW - Biographies KW - Case studies KW - Biographies. ER -